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Free Wednesday Walking Tours: Grant Street

PA

Reservations appreciated: marylu@phlf.org; 412-471-5808, ext. 527 Tour the northern end of the Grant Street area on this free guided walking tour with PHLF, from Sixth Avenue to Liberty and back to the U.S. Steel Plaza (across from the Omni William Penn Hotel). You’ll see corporate skyscrapers––originally designed for Gulf Oil, Koppers, and U. S. Steel––plus a new hotel in a historic building; a sensational railroad headquarters building that now houses apartments, offices, and Amtrak; the massive Federal Courthouse; and the enduring First Lutheran Church, serving downtown since 1888. Meeting location: Grant Street near Sixth Avenue, at the Omni William Penn Hotel […]

Market Square Public Art – Yoga

Market Square 210 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh

1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Felicia Savage Friedman will lead a yoga and meditation class in Market Square. Participants must bring their own yoga mats. 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., A panel discussion will take place, focusing on how the work of Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, and Sun Ra created spaces, both creative and physical, to encourage healing from the traumatic political landscape in the United States, and to imagine Utopian ideals. The panel consists of various artists whose work emulates the goals of Coleman, Coltrane, and Sun Ra in the present day.  Panelists include: Felicia Savage Friedman, Darrell Kinsel, Ingrid LaFleur, Bekezela […]

Sharpsburg Walking Tour

Saturday, May 4, 2019 Noon to 2:00 p.m. Join us as we take a walk back in time and into the future of Sharpsburg, a riverfront community that was home, at various times, to Seneca Indians, sturdy pioneers, and immigrants who labored on the Pennsylvania Canal and railroads and in the mills and factories. The Borough famously is the birthplace of the H. J. Heinz Company. Mayor Matthew V. Rudzki will accompany our group and will discuss the Borough’s plans for revitalization. You’ll see a wonderful collection of historic buildings that give character and distinction to this resilient community that […]